In this extract, which Mr. Vaughan prints without any break or mark of omission, I have put two clauses within brackets, because, in the original, they occur in a different connection, and although their meaning has not been changed, yet some notice of this transposition ought, I conceive, to have been given. This mode of quoting his author is very common with Mr. Vaughan, and must tend to weaken our confidence in his statements. It may be remarked also, that in the second of the transposed passages, he has mistaken the word "dogge' [dung], and instead of "they shall be cast out as dung," he renders it, "they shall be cast out as dogs;" "seyd," in the same passage, he has translated despised, and "myddis placis," open places. I am far from being satisfied that these words are correctly rendered, although the version seems to give a connected meaning. The allusion is probably to Jer. ix. 22, or to Ps. xvi. [in the Vulg. xvii.] 43. I would further beg the reader's attention to the concluding sentences, where Mr. Vaughan makes his author quote, as if from the Epistle to the Romans, a passage which occurs only in the Epistle to the Hebrews, and not in both epistles, as Mr. Vaughan's version seems to assert. It is easy to point out the origin of the mistake. Wycliffe having quoted Rom. v. 7-9, makes his reference to the passage by the words, Poul writith to the Romayns, v. co.," i. e., “so Paul writeth;" and, in like manner, after having quoted Heb. ix. 24, he adds, Poul to the Hebrees," but Mr. Vaughan, as it seems, not understanding the reference "v. co.," and supposing the words to refer to what follows instead of to what went before, cuts the knot by boldly omitting the mysterious “v. co.,” and inserting the words, "the same also he writeth," to supply what, to him, appeared a defect in the original; how far he has improved his author's meaning let the reader judge. It is also, perhaps, worth noticing, to shew how one error leads to another, that Mr. Le Bas, quoting this passage from Mr. Vaughan, and feeling puzzled, as well he might, with the reference to the Romans, appears to have supposed the words, "He shall pray for us," to be the quotation from that Epistle, and therefore gives in his margin a reference to Rom. viii. 34. It happens, in this instance, that the mistake is of no great consequence, nor is the passage, in its general meaning, much affected by any of the inaccuracies I have pointed out; it furnishes, however, a very fair and rather favourable specimen of Mr. Vaughan's mode of quoting Wycliffe, and of the kind of liberties which he seems to have considered himself justified in taking with the original. On the whole, then, the argument of the tract is briefly this :-Four periods of tribulation to the church were predicted, of which Wycliffe considers two as past; the third, which was described in prophecy as negotium ambulans in tenebris, "chaffare walkyng in derkenessis," he interprets of the "privi heresie of simonians," the purchasing of bishoprics and benefices from the court of Rome, by dismes, pensions, annates, and other imposts, then demanded by the pope as the price of his patronage, and therefore he infers, that this third period of tribulation coincided with his own times; an opinion which derived some apparent confirmation from the fearful pestilences with which England, as well as the continent of Europe, had then recently been visited. The fourth tribulation, he says, "schal be bi the deuel of mydday (dæmonium meridianum), that is, antecrist," whose " comynge oonly to god is knowẽ and knowleche of hi to god oonly reserued." (To be continued.) * I cannot help requesting the reader's attention to this passage, as expressing the ancient, and, I think, the true opinion about Antichrist. This is not the place for discussing the question whether Wycliffe held the pope to be Antichrist in the modern sense of that doctrine; but it may be remarked, that the tract before us contains no traces of any such opinion. The reader who wishes to understand the subject is referred to An Attempt to elucidate the Prophecies concerning Antichrist," by the Rev. S. R. Maitland. Lond. 1830. SACRED POETRY. "But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? in tithes and offerings. HEARD ye? the unerring Judge is at the door! Your schemes with God's own whirlwind must engage, O full-sail'd bark! God's curse thy bearing wind, THE COMET. O THOU, far throned on thine ethereal tent, Sitst mocking at the thing that men call time; Awful in beauty, till I seem'd like thee, Of passing worlds the mighty chronicler ! AUTUMNAL HYMN. THE leaves, around me falling, The day in night declining Just gleam and shoot away, And chide at my delay. VOL. VIII.-Sept. 1835. 2 N The friends gone there before me And find true life begin!" I hear the invitation, And fain would rise and come, A sinner to salvation, An exile to his home; But while I here must linger, Point on with faithful finger To heaven, O Lord, and Thee! H. F. L. PSALM IV. GOD of all my righteousness, Serve thou Him, and He will hear!" "Stand in awe, nor dare to sin; Many cry in fretful mood, H. F. L. EXCERPTA ECCLESIASTICA. ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, - -TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29. "He shall give his angels charge over thee."-Ps. xci. 11. WHEN Meekness droops apart, and weeps Her wrongs' unuttered woe, For those her heav'nward vigil keeps Who bade her sorrow flow; Say, does no wakeful angel friend Will he not cast a spell-fraught cloud, Guileful or thoughtless, weak or proud, And tarries nigh no milder spright My soul, if ever joy or bliss, Bethink thee, in that hour of glee, What meek heart, sorrow-rent, May weep thy fault, yet plead for thee- η. Lyra Apostolica. Γνοῖεν δ', ὡς δὴ δηρὸν ἐγὼ πολέμοιο πέπαυμαι. NO. XXVIII. TIME was, though true my heart proclaimed my creed, That thou art right, and all beside thee wrong?" The calm, clear accents of the chosen one, CHRIST'S mystic Bride, ordained with Him to reign, I hear with pitying sigh such taunts profane; 2.-IDOLATRY AND DISSENT. "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun." "THE thing that hath been, it shall be." Doth haughty man, 'gainst Heav'n's decree, The same mad warfare wage; Deeming, of old, the homage shame Which One on High of right could claim, Loathing a power that based not still Its throne upon his own wild will, Gods whom he chose, and made, he served alone, And worshipped his own pride, in blocks of wood and stone. "The thing that hath been, it shall be." The self-same pride this hour Bids headstrong myriads round us flee Will name his priest, will chuse his shrine; 3.-JEREMIAH. "Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them." "WOE's me!" the peaceful prophet cried, Spare me this troubled life; To stem man's wrath, to school his pride, "O place me in some silent vale, Where groves and flowers abound; If his meek spirit erred, opprest What sin is ours, to whom Heaven's rest 4.-EREMITES. Two sinners have been grace-endued, Unwearied to sustain For forty days a solitude On mount and desert plain. But feverish thoughts the breast have swayed, If e'er we seek the garden's shade Or walk the world alone. For Adam e'en, before his sin, Blest with an angel's heart within, Lone saints of old! of purpose high, |